Baseball saw an incredible thing 50 years ago today.
Box Score
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bo...96307020.shtml
Juan Marichal threw 16 shutout innings of baseball. Warren Spahn threw 15.1 innings of baseball before giving up a walk-off solo home run to Willie Mays.
Span struck out just 2 batters in 15.1 innings.
Just thought I would share.
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Both managers played for Leo Durocher too.Originally Posted by dougdirt
Why was Willie Mays batting second at the height of his career? Felipe Alou batting cleanup instead?
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To be fair, Mays had the 5th best OPS in that lineup at that point of the season. In the first half of the season he hit just .271/.352/.468. Certainly a good line given the era, but he went all Willie Mays in the second half of '63 and hit .362/.412/.709 in the second half of the season.
OK, that makes sense. Just nobody tell Dusty that you can even move star players when they aren't performing.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. -- Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)
Well... he only batted in the second slot for 4 games that season, and while he hit Spahn well (.305/.368/.587/.955 )Alou hit him better (career .344/.392/.633/1.025) The real number lies in May's numbers vs Spahn for the 4 years prior to that game
1960-1963 .218/.232/.487/.719 in 83 PAs
Besides the two HOF pitchers, there were seven future Hall of Fame players in that game - Aaron & Mathews; Mays, McCovey and Cepeda - and, of course, Spahn & Marichal.
Here's something from SI, an excerpt from a book.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...hal/index.html
The article answered the question I went looking for - both pitchers threw more than 200 pitches each.
The other thing I overlooked was both of these pitchers used a high leg kick.
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